Setting up your PATH

The original way to do this was to use the BFCURRENT environment variable and/or a ~/BFCURRENT file, which the SRTstartup.csh script would use to manipulate the PATH variable. This still works, but is somewhat unwieldy:

• Make sure the BFCURRENT environment variable is set to the name of the production release you are using (e.g. "current" or "2.4.1")
• Use the command:

  source ~/SRTstartup.csh

  assuming you have copied SRTstartup.csh to your home directory so it can be found easily. You may also be able to locate it at $BFDIST/releases/current/SoftRelTools/Srtstartup.csh

Many, but not all sites, have an srtpath alias defined to do this. If your site is one of them,to set your PATH, you can use the command:

srtpath 2.4.1 $BFARCH

(NOTE: The $BFARCH is there because srtpath can also set the architecture in use, for example if you want to specify if you're using the native compiler instead of g++).

Its important that either SRTstartup.csh or srtpath be used to configure the PATH every time you start to use a test release. Relying on SRTstartup.csh setting the path to the "current" release is not a reliable solution.

(Last updated 10/8/98)